What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 15 July 2022.

Českobratrská was built before 1875.

The Jednota bratrská / Unitas Fratrum was the Bohemian Reformation Church, founded in 1457 in Kunvald.

Its principles were based on the teachings of Petr Chelčický, who we dealt with on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/24/prague-3-day-78-chelcickeho/.

Unsurprisingly, the Church did not do particularly well out of the Counter-Reformation.

It wasn’t revived in the Czech Lands until the 19th century, this time with the name ‘Jednota českobratrská’ (Czech Fraternal Unity’).

The Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren (ECCB) (Českobratrská církev evangelická; ČCE) has existed in its current form since the unification of several Protestant churches in 1918.

It’s the second-largest church in the Czech Republic, although its membership was just under 33,000 according to the 2021 census, when, in 1991, it counted 204,000 members.